[TigerGalLE]

Totally off subject here but NurseCherLove made me laugh... We have little old ladies that run the switch board at my hospital and the young transport guys love to play pranks on them... Every now and then we hear...

Sue Sue DaMonas please report to the lobby
or...
Adam Adam Zapel please report to the cafeteria
or
Ophelia Ophelia Pane please report to the ER

Haha those little old ladies never have a clue!!!

[lupin]

I just remembered a code that one of my old nursing school buddies had. She was working as a CNA extern at a med center, which they will give nursing students who work for them as CNAs a semester of "prenursing school" training. Anyway, she was working on the skilled nursing floor and one of the docs who makes rounds there told her, "If you're ever in a code situation while you are an extern, don't leave the room. Just go stand in the corner of the room and observe what happens."
Well, a few days later as she was doing her VS rounds, a lady coded in front of her. She told me she hit the code button and then froze. She wasn't able to remember what to do next except go stand in the corner. So that's what she did, until the nurses and the code team got there. Then when one of them asked her to check for a radial pulse, she blanked out and said, "what's a pulse?".
Poor thing, she made it through school fine though .

[km5v6r]

Then when one of them asked her to check for a radial pulse, she blanked out and said, "what's a pulse?".
Poor thing, she made it through school fine though .[/quote]

I worked with a nurse once who was also a minister's wife. Very nice person, rarely flustered and NEVER known to say a swear word. One day one of her pt's went into VFib. Code was called, crash cart arrived and she grabbed the paddles (before hands off defib with patches were available). The paddles were labled with sternum and apex to help remind the user of proper placement. She took one look at the paddles in her hands and shouted loudly "What the H%&& is an APEX?" Pt did survive but the nurse thought she was going to die of embarrassment afterward.

[TazziRN]

Ministers' wives and kids........hard life, man!

[burn out]

Originally Posted by TazziRN

Ministers' wives and kids........hard life, man!

and a nurse-what a super woman

[DeLana_RN]

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[DeLana_RN]

Just read Ruby Vee's story... I say it wins the prize.

DeLana

[weesyanne]

I just thought of another funny "code" situation. I was working on a cardiac stepdown unit one day and the monitor tech yelled, "Room 109 is in V-tach!" We all went running down to the room, pushing the crash cart. At the door of her room, there stood the patient calmly shaking up a bottle of Mylanta. She looked puzzled and asked, "Where are you guys going?"

[blueheaven]

Originally Posted by RunnerRN

Not much up to par with those above, but I love when one of my docs is getting ready to intubate a drunk that we've been bagging, tilts the head back, and we get a nice big BURRRRP right in the docs face Even better when it is a new resident who hasn't yet learned to wear a mask when tubing drunks!

Even better than that is when you have a new intern or resident that has been a know-it-all pain in the butt and that happens

One hectic evening, I was FINALLY sitting down and gobbling down some supper when the extemely new nurse comes running in the break room and asks ?????What does a respiratory arrest look like??????? My tray went flying as my favorite pre-code epithet "Oh, Sh++"" as we ran down the hall. He survived. LOL.

[Ann RN]

I've had an intern (now a cardiac surgeon!) order a STAT tylenol suppository during a code. Ahh - maybe some IV meds first.